Prison is never a fun place to have to go. COVID-19 has made it even less so. Things are so bad that they’re letting people out to keep them safe from the sickness. (Not everyone, of course, but enough to make it next to impossible for California to fight its increasingly devastating wildfires with forced labor, which it to say it makes it impossible for California to fight them at all.)
Prison is an even less fun place to go in this year of the plague if you’re a member of a high-risk group—say, octogenarians—are more used to passing your days in Europe, tony suburbs of Boston and Key Biscayne; and enjoy a the sort of lifestyle you might bemoan missing out on behind bars. Of course, these realizations generally occur far too late, for example: when you are standing before a judge to answer for tax evasion and money laundering.